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SAN ANTONIO – Trinity University will honor the late Martin Luther King Jr. with a public lecture and participation in a San Antonio march commemorating the slain civil rights leader. The University’s annual MLK Jr. Commemorative Lecture will feature Marc Lamont Hill, one of the leading hip-hop generation intellectuals in the country, at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 19, in Laurie Auditorium on the Trinity University campus. The event is free and open to the public.

Hill’s work, which covers topics such as hip-hop culture, politics, sexuality, education, and religion, has appeared in numerous journals, magazines, books, and anthologies. He has lectured widely and provides regular commentary for media outlets such as NPR, Washington Post, Essence magazine, and The New York Times and has been a regular guest on CNN, MSNBC, and Larry King Live. In fall 2009, he joined the faculty of Columbia University as associate professor of education at Teachers College.

Trinity has honored the memory of King for decades and launched a speaker series in 1994. Students affiliated with the Trinity Diversity Connection and members of the Black Student Union, University President Dennis Ahlburg and his wife, Penelope Harley, as well as Trinity faculty and staff members, will join other residents of San Antonio in the annual MLK Jr. March through the community’s East Side on Monday, Jan. 17.